Meng Yan's Transformation

Zhan Mengyan put aside her mental burden and prepared for her study life in the third year of junior high school.

Because Zhan Mengyan was nearsighted and did not wear glasses, she was assigned a seat in the back row, which made it impossible for her to see clearly what the teachers wrote on the blackboard.

One day, Zhan Mengyan went to the office to find her class teacher, her cousin Zhang Deren. She hesitated and said, "Cousin, can you change my seat? I am a little nearsighted. If I sit in the back seat, I can't see clearly what the teachers write on the blackboard during class. I can't take complete notes in class."

Zhang Deren looked at Zhan Mengyan and said irritably, "Zhan Mengyan, listen carefully. This is the office of the mathematics group of Xinxing Middle School. The person in front of you is Zhang Deren, the third-grade mathematics teacher, not your cousin. You are nearsighted, so you should go to the county town to get glasses instead of changing seats to see the writing on the blackboard clearly. In the future, please don't come to my office without my permission. If you have any problems, you can report to the class cadres, and the class cadres will report to me. Now please go back to the classroom to study."

Zhan Mengyan looked at Zhang Deren with a serious face, lowered her head and left the office silently. She felt uncomfortable and said to herself: "Do you think I am willing to call you cousin? Brother Zi'an, what advice did you give me? Calling Zhang Deren "cousin" when seeing him in private will shorten the distance and increase the intimacy. Things in school will be easier. I listened to you, but it hurt myself. The first time I called him "cousin", Zhang Deren rejected me thousands of miles away..."

Zhan Mengyan's deskmate Zhang Meijuan is the English class representative. She had just come out of the English group office to hand in her classmates' homework books. Seeing Zhan Mengyan walking in front of her, she gently patted her shoulder from behind and said, "Hey! Zhan Mengyan, what are you mumbling about? What's going on? Have you gone to see our head teacher, Mr. Zhang Deren? Did you tell him about the seat change? Did he agree?"

Zhan Mengyan was frightened and shivered. She turned around and saw Zhang Meijuan and said, "Zhang Meijuan, why are you following me like a ghost? I was startled when you noticed me."

Zhang Meijuan saw Zhan Mengyan with a frown on her face, drooping mouth corners, and a look of worry and unhappiness, which made her mood also depressed. She guessed that Zhan Mengyan did not move her seat, so she said: "Menyan, it’s okay if you don’t move your seat forward. I will take notes more carefully in the future. You can read my notes after class." As Zhang Meijuan spoke, she held Zhan Mengyan’s hand tightly and walked towards the classroom.

Zhan Mengyan and Zhang Meijuan had just sat down in the classroom when Zhang Deren also walked into the classroom. He walked up to the podium and said, "Students, the leaders of the county education bureau will come to our school for inspection and guidance in a few days. There are weeds in some places on the school playground. The school management office has divided the playground into areas and asked each class to be responsible for the sanitation of an area. The task is tight and heavy. We can only sacrifice some self-study time to clean up. Now, please ask Zhan Mengyan and Li Sanqiang from this street to go home and get their tools. We will start weeding."

Zhan Mengyan and Li Sanqiang went home together to get the weeding tools, such as shovels, hoes, soil baskets, etc.

Li Sanqiang looked at Zhan Mengyan who was walking quickly and asked, "Classmate Zhan Mengyan, I'm a little confused. I heard that our class teacher Zhang Deren is your eldest cousin. How come you were voted as a class cadre by your classmates but was rejected by Zhang Deren? Whenever there is labor in the class, you are asked to do it, and you are asked to go home to get tools. You are exhausted and delay your studies. I am not good at studying and I don't plan to take the high school entrance examination. It doesn't matter if I delay my study time. You have such good academic performance and are a good candidate for a key high school entrance examination. How did you offend your cousin? Why are you always troubled by the class teacher Zhang Deren?"